First blood and the party goes on...

We've had a crazy weekend again. I ended up getting cajoled into translating for an African wedding. Thank God I knew the preacher from ages ago and he sent me his sermon, the vows... by e-mail the night before. I spent the whole morning finding the right words, even calling the family who conferred on some key terms that don't translate well. Then the preacher added an entire page more the morning of the wedding, but all said, it went really well. I, however was exhausted. Partly due to the fact that everything was late, as in an hour or more late. The reception was still going strong at 10pm at which time our family all turned into goblins and left before the next transformation occurred into even scarier creatures. It was beautiful none the less and the kids of course had a blast. In these pics, Dominique was cuddling up in a scarf a friend had brought me from Thailand. I think she looks exotic.

The day would have been much rougher if we had had to go to the emergency the night before. Dominique was spinning and throwing herself on Big Buddy's couch when she missed the couch and hit the back of her head on a coffee table with a glass top laying on top of it. I ran to her and picked her up and felt wet- hoping it was sweat. When I pulled my hand away, it was red and I rushed her to the kitchen to try to locate the cut. She had blood everywhere and I had to basically rinse out all the back of her heair to find where the gash was. By the time I found it, she was ready to get down and it was already coagulating. It was not in need of stitches, but I did call the doc on call to find out about concussion rules and such. It happened to be our pediatrician and he said if she wasn't knocked out, she should be ok. I'm glad and surprised that nothing has happened before this considering how much she throws herself around.



These were the pics from our outing to the pool. Sorry they are way late. And my apologies to the reader who asked if this was the state park pool. I never got back to you to say that it was and it is fabulous, but probably closed now since they close up right before school starts.



I don't know if you will be able to see this video at all since it was so dark. It's Dominique and I skating at the roller rink. On a funny note, Dominique's latest expression is: "I'm busy". The other day, I was laying down and she came to join me. I asked her to rub my back, so she did for 5 secs. Then asked me to rub hers. So I did, then said it was my turn again and she replied "I busy" and hopped off the bed and away she went.

Here is Ivan "reading" Angela's airplane by Robert Munsch. I started recording him when he was already a couple of pages into it. He's really good at memorizing. It's nice that he can "read" some on his own now sometimes.